HeyJaredRight Moves: A LiiNK Center for Healthy Play Podcast
The Right Moves Podcast, brought to you by TCU’s LiiNK Center for Healthy Play, features conversations regarding whole child and adult health. This podcast will focus on the current state of U.S.
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The Societal Pressures Pushing Youth into Sport Specialization Too Early (opens the original)
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Youth sports in the US have become increasingly competitive and expensive especially since kids are becoming more specialized making it earlier in their elementary school years. What is the drive behind this? With only 1% of youth athletes playing at the college and professional levels, and many youth athletes quitting their sport by the age of 13, we have to ask ourselves where this immense pressure to enroll our children in sport early and specialize in a single sport is coming from? Dr. Rhea
Early Sport Specialization – The Focus on Winning Comes at a Loss of Physical and Emotional Wellbeing (opens the original)
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What should parents and coaches really be focused on to ensure well-rounded success for their young athletes? Sport specialization may sound like the key to success in any given sport, but in reality, it increases injury risk and limits the young athlete’s ability to round out their physical literacy. Dr. Rhea brings back Dr. Tim Baghurst, to dive deeper into the culture around youth sport specialization in the U.S. and the hurdles young athletes often face that prevent them from cross-training
Epidemic of Early Sport Specialization and Untrained Coaches in the U.S. (opens the original)
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Our adult population is hugely competitive, especially in sport. The questions are, “when should children begin playing sport?”; “what should be the objective of sport in a child’s life?”; “what should adults know about a child’s developmental stage and how it impacts their health for a lifetime?? We may think signing our children up for sport early is what’s best for them – it keeps them active and hey, if they train enough they’ll go pro one day. Dr. Rhea brings on a good friend and research p
Former TCU All-American, Jaden Oberkrom, left the NFL to Develop Youth into Kickers (opens the original)
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Former TCU All-American kicker, Jaden Oberkrom, set multiple records while kicking for TCU from 2012-2015. He was drafted into the NFL and had his professional sports career set, but something didn’t feel right. Jaden walked away from a contract with the Cleveland Browns when he realized his true passion was helping kids achieve their dreams through sport development. Dr. Rhea sits down with Jaden to share his story about how he got started and what his goals were for youth sport development. Hi
Optimizing Youth to be Sport Ready: What Does it Take? (opens the original)
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Optimizing athletic ability as an adolescent while avoiding injury is often the goal across all sports. While in children who aspire to be athletes, what should that really look like if we want the best for our children, both physically and emotionally? Dr. Rhea brings back Dr. Sophia Ulman to discuss how her Movement Science Lab at Scottish Rite Hospital in Frisco uses motion capture technology and neurocognitive testing to indicate deficits in motor skills in order to reduce injury risk in you
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